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RSS feed →Dutch DPA to WordPress Site Owners: Patch Now, Assume a Breach If Logs Cannot Rule It Out
The Dutch data protection authority, the Autoriteit Persoonsgegevens, published advice for those who want to use cheap wordpress plugins and think that…
Sweden’s Privacy Regulator Launches FantomApp to Help Kids Lock Down Social Media
Sweden’s data protection authority, IMY, launched FantomApp in the country on August 31.
Erased, Not Answered: What WIRED’s 100-Company Data Investigation Reveals About Modern Privacy Laws
The gap between data privacy law on paper and data privacy enforcement in reality was laid bare when a Wired reporter submitted…
A Doctor’s Phone Call Became a Data Breach: Why Privacy Incidents Aren’t Always Cyber Incidents
A healthcare provider in Guernsey reported a personal data breach after a doctor discussed one patient’s confidential medical information while another patient…
FTC Finalizes $930,000 Orders Over Fake “Active Listening” Ad Targeting
The Federal Trade Commission has locked in consent orders against Cox Media Group and two marketing shops that sold a story about…
The EU’s Proposed CADA: Why Cloud Sovereignty Matters for Business Strategy
Here’s a number that explains a lot about where European tech policy is headed right now: in 2017, European cloud providers held…
U.S. Treasury Launches Quantum-Readiness Task Force to Protect the Financial System
The U.S. Department of the Treasury has launched a public-private task force to prepare banks, payment systems, financial-market operators, technology providers and…
Nigel Farage Pledges to Scrap UK GDPR for a New Zealand-Style Privacy Law
Reform UK has proposed replacing the United Kingdom’s existing data protection regime with a “light-touch” privacy law modeled on New Zealand’s Privacy…
Maryland Advocates Ask AG Brown to Probe Data Brokers Selling Location Trails to Immigration Agencies
A coalition of privacy and civil liberties groups has asked Maryland Attorney General Anthony Brown to investigate commercial data brokers they say…
OpenAI Pledges No User Data Retention — What It Means for Enterprise Privacy Compliance
The Wall Street Journal reported that OpenAI has told enterprise and API customers its zero data retention (ZDR) commitment will survive the…
FTC Drafts Enforcement Policy on Personalized Pricing, Not a Ban
The Federal Trade Commission has put out a draft enforcement policy on personalized pricing.
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Instinct’s AI Assistant Can Book the Table — and Keep the Inbox. That’s the Privacy Problem.
Instinct, an invite-only personal AI assistant from Spear Street Technology, is being described by early testers as the most capable consumer agent…